We recently rolled out a new theme update and thought we had worked out all of the kinks. We received an issue where customers could not view any orders within their customer account screens. They could get to everything else, including actually re-ordering.
IT Purchasing Tips through eBay
While we have found eBay to be a very good source for computer and other IT hardware, we have run into several situations that we’d like to avoid in the future.
There apparently is a new type of scam involving newly created ebay accounts. The accounts are created in the same month of a listed item and claim to be from the US. The product they list is from Hong Kong and claims to have a month long shipping process.
Oracle 12c Ubuntu Xen Server Setup
We’ve recently started on a new Research and Development project to try and compare Oracle 12c with another database system. Our preferred tools are usually Ubuntu and Citrix XenServer, so we decided to create a new UBUNTU with plenty of spindle, memory and CPU power on our Xen Server.
WordPress Jetpack Troubleshooting
Jetpack for WordPress is a great set of plugins to help publish and share your blog posts. Unfortunately, this functionality comes at the cost of it not always being the easiest to setup and/or install. In our experience we have found a pretty wide array of issues that cause it not to function properly, ranging from incompatible theme issues to other plugins.
Below are some tips to hopefully solving your issues and getting JetPack running.
DNN Search Box to Page with Search Results Module
We recently started work on a DNN skin, where we needed a custom search input box to submit to a page with a search results … Read More
Jigar Patel Silva Tech Solutions LLC 2014 Internship Program
We would like to welcome Jigar Patel to the Silva Tech Solutions LLC 2014 Internship Program! Jigar is a first-year, B.S. Computer Science and Business … Read More
Solving jScrollPane Issues with jQuery Slideup
We ran into a problem where a jScrollPane was not showing up on a longer div, when it was slide up using jQuery’s “slideDown”/”slideUp”.
After much debugging, we discovered that jScrollPane was actually being applied, however it was NOT calculating the actual DIV height correctly.
Magento SSL to Non-SSL redirect for SEO
One customer was having issues with certain SSL versions of their pages being crawled by Google. They were receiving duplicate content penalties.
While Magento does a decent job forcing a user to an SSL page of mandatory secure sections of a website (checkout/accounts etc), it does not handle the opposite. Redirect the user to a NON ssl version of the page. CMS Pages/product pages/categories. There is very little benefit of having them served via HTTPS and it increases the load on the server itself.
XenConvert – Solving Convert Issues
We’ve recently set out to convert one of our XP workstations into a virtual image to run on one of our XenServer boxes (GPU CUDA pass-through R&D for another article). We downloaded the latest version XenConvert (2.5 as of this writing) and installed it on the host machine. We made sure to clear the machine off of unnecessary files, run defrag and CCleaner. Having experience with Vmware converters in the past, we stopped all unnecessary services on the machine. We then started the conversion.